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		<title>Descriptive English Grammar vs Prescriptive English Grammar</title>
		<description>Discuss Descriptive English Grammar vs Prescriptive English Grammar</description>
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			<title>re: pardon my English!</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Thanks Jaba for the comments, I made the mistake of not capitalizing university, so the two example sentences should read the following way: I graduated Japan University. I graduated from Japan University. Japan University is, of course, a fictional university. Maybe that was a bad choice of words on my part. Sorry for the confusion! And thanks for adding the comment about they/their/them, I've never really thought about them that way. It's a good description of their use.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Neal
Chambers</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Sun, 24 Oct 2010 14:13:57 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>Pardon my English !</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Hello...I have to disagree with the examples given : I graduated Japan university. I graduated from Japan university. (standard usage) Both these sentences are wrong ! They should read : I graduated from a Japanese university. Regarding the use of their / they / them : when we don't know the gender of the person who did something, we use the 3rd person plural to describe the duality of the given situation...simply put, two possibilities force the use of the 3rd person plural. In some cases the "it" may be used i.e. I wonder who it was / could have been ? Hope this helps !]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Jaba Dale</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Sun, 24 Oct 2010 09:44:47 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>RE: Descriptive English Grammar vs Prescriptive English Grammar</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[This is really a wonderful article,Grammar is such a vast subject specially for the people's who don't have English as there mother tongue,had able to speak good English but not very good grammar.I always had troubles while using the tenses and even prepositions and i am improving on this..thanks to this article.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>English Grammar</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Sat, 31 Jul 2010 06:00:32 +0000</pubDate>
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